Box Score AIKEN, SC--Junior right hander
Mike Pomaville made an impression in his first start for USC Aiken as the 15th ranked Pacers (1-0) defeated the visiting Lincoln Memorial Railsplitters (0-1) 7-1 in on Saturday afternoon at J.H. Satcher Field.
Pomaville (1-0) had a no-hitter through 5.2 innings and allowed just one earned run on one hit with five strikeouts in picking up the win.
Chad McMurray,
Paul Ferrell, and
David Caison each tossed one inning of relief combining for no hits, no runs, and three strikeouts.
A five-run seventh inning broke open a 2-1 game when
Tony Hanks (1) led off with a solo home run to right field off reliever
Alex Shedden.
Shedden surrendered five runs, all earned, on five hits and one walk in six batters faced. Starter
Brandon Conrad (0-1) worked 6.0 strong innings allowing two earned runs on five hits and one walk while striking out five.
Following the
Hanks blast,
Leroy Walker and
Chris Sheehan had back-to-back singles setting up
Mike Ross' RBI single to center field.
Clint Keown then drew a walk to load the bases and a balk assessed to
Shedden plated
Sheehan.
Justin Williams cranked a shot to the gap in right center to score
Keown and
Ross and make it 7-1 before
Alex Queen came on in reliever to get the Railsplitters out of a jam.
Scoreless through two and one-half innings,
Ross doubled to left center to lead off the third. Following a sacrifice bunt by
Keown,
Williams' RBI groundout made it 1-0 in favor of the Pacers.
LMU tied it up in the top of the sixth when a
Jim Wernke single to center field scoring
David Kelley from second.
Demetrick Drumming quickly gave the lead back to USCA in the bottom half of the inning with a one out single to right field scoring
Bradley Keyfrom second who had doubled.
Hanks,
Sheehan, and
Ross each posted two hits for the Pacers while
Williams had a game-high three RBI.
Wernke had the lone hit for Lincoln Memorial. However, clean-up hitter
Ben Fox was 0-for-0 with four walks.
???????USC Aiken and Lincoln Memorial with square off again on Sunday, February 2 at 1:00 PM.
Lincoln Memorial 000 001 000 - 1 1 1
#15 USC Aiken 001 001 50x - 7 11 0
